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Biden camp tries to rebound after "bad f***ing weeks"

Joe Biden's campaign chair urged staffers Thursday to tune out "crazy f***ing gossip land world," according to an audio recording of an all-hands call obtained by Axios.Why it matters: It was the third all-staff call Biden campaign leadership has held since last Wednesday as they try to fix low morale and disillusionment among their staff.

Driving the news: Chair Jen O'Malley Dillon was candid about how difficult the fallout has been in the two weeks since the debate.

"We had two very, very, very hard weeks, very bad weeks.

I told you I'd level with you, they've been bad fucking weeks," she said.

"This two week window has really sucked, and it is hard, there is no doubt about it.

And it's hard for all of us because we are doing the job," she said.

She added that Biden's top political adviser Mike Donilon has been saying in meetings since the debate that "he's never seen a presidential candidate have more thrown at him than Joe Biden and do you know what Joe Biden does every day? He gets up and he keeps fighting."

She added: "If we can get through these two weeks that we're living through, we can get through anything."

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